Climate talks not looking good, says Kyoto expert

CBC News

December 3, 2011

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While a top United Nations climate official is expressing confidence industrial countries will renew their commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a member of the original Canadian delegation to the Kyoto climate talks in 1997 is doubtful.

Paul Heinbecker, now with with the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ont., told CBC News Network on Saturday that the outcome of the latest climate conference now underway in Durban, South Africa will be “a lot less than people are hoping for."

That's contrary to what UN official Christiana Figueres said recently, noting the talks are in “good shape” as the …

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